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fishlouse

noun

Etymology

From fish + louse.

  1. derived from *lewH-✻
  2. inherited from *lūs✻
  3. inherited from *lūs✻
  4. inherited from lūs
  5. inherited from lous
  6. formed as fishlouse — “fish + louse”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of fish louse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fishlouse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA